From rlarsson@demon.co.uk Mon Aug 28 17:09:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!demon!rlarsson From: rlarsson@demon.co.uk (Renata Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug28.170956.7725@demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 17:09:56 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Renata Larsson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Demon Internet Services UK. ------------------------------------------------------------ From bfournier@cam.ac.uk Wed Aug 30 20:15:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cam!bfournier From: bfournier@cam.ac.uk (Brian Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug30.201556.1034@cam.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 20:15:56 GMT References: <1995Aug28.170956.7725@demon.co.uk> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug28.170956.7725@demon.co.uk>, rlarsson@demon.co.uk (Renata Larsson) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. -- Brian Fournier "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Atari TT030 / SunOS 4.1.4 From lmartinez@cern.ch Thu Aug 31 11:33:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cern!lmartinez From: lmartinez@cern.ch (Lisa Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug31.113356.8037@cern.ch> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 11:33:56 GMT References: <1995Aug28.170956.7725@demon.co.uk> <1995Aug30.201556.1034@cam.ac.uk> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug30.201556.1034@cam.ac.uk>, bfournier@cam.ac.uk (Brian Fournier) writes: > That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Lisa Martínez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0 From hmoreno@netcom.com Sat Sep 02 02:17:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!netcom!hmoreno From: hmoreno@netcom.com (Hana Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep02.021756.7903@netcom.com> Date: Sat, 02 Sep 1995 02:17:56 GMT References: <1995Aug28.170956.7725@demon.co.uk> <1995Aug30.201556.1034@cam.ac.uk> <1995Aug31.113356.8037@cern.ch> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Aug31.113356.8037@cern.ch>, lmartinez@cern.ch (Lisa Martínez) writes: > The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. -- Hana Moreno -- NETCOM On-Line Communication Services "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question."